Grace Swee is a Singaporean filmmaker and writer, based in New York City. Her first foray into storytelling was when, as a child, she would re-imagine herself in the stories she read of Enid Blyton’s fairy tales and magical lands. After a brief stint in copy-writing and editorial work, she packed her bags and moved to NYC for film school.
Grace’s films have screened at various international film festivals. Her recent short, ‘空间 Distance’, received a Special Mention at the 39th Film School Fest Munich and was a 2020 Film Pipeline Short Film Winner. In 2017, the short “Breakers”, co-written with Minami Goto, won the top prize at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2017, in the International Short Film Pitch Competition. In 2018, her project “Baby Box” was selected for the South-East Asian Film Lab, led by regional mentors to develop as a feature.
While she continues working on screenplays, she dreams of writing a good piece of fantasy literature.
Grace is an MFA film graduate from Columbia University, School of The Arts. She enjoys telling stories that expound on family relations, with deep character studies, and a touch of magical realism or fantasy.
